Is there a bone marrow registry in Panama?

Panamá-Dono exists: TVN reported it found a donor in Oct 2022, but the newest public description of joining is La Prensa’s from Jan 2014, and the CSS sites returned a bot check or an error message when we tried on Oct 11 and Oct 15, 2026. [9, 10]

TVN reported that Panama’s CSS donor database found a donor in 2022. [9]

We couldn’t open one other official page when we tried on Oct 11, 2026. That tells us nothing about whether it offers a way to join.

When we checked on Oct 16, 2026, the sign-up form of Colombia’s DarCélulas asked for an address in a Colombian department and city, and NMDP took only residents of the U.S., its territories or freely associated states; neither offered people living in Panama a way to join. [1, 2]

La Estrella de Panamá reported in Nov 2025, citing data from the social security fund (CSS), that Panama’s first marrow transplant from a genetically identical relative was done in 2000 and its first half-matched (haploidentical) stem cell transplant in 2014. [12]

The Instituto Oncológico Nacional and the Complejo Hospitalario did Panama’s first transplants with patients’ own marrow in 2000, for insured and uninsured patients alike, and the Hospital del Niño followed, with the CSS national transplant laboratory doing all the tissue typing, the laboratory’s director wrote in 2026. [13]

La Prensa reported in Jan 2014 that Panama’s social security fund (CSS) started Panamá-Dono, its program for volunteer unrelated donors, in Oct 2012, after its national transplant laboratory found that only 75 of 198 patients studied from 2007 to 2011 had a matching relative. [11]

La Prensa reported in Jan 2014 that Panama’s Panamá-Dono program had 195 volunteer unrelated donors; we found no newer figure. [10]

A CSS hematologist told La Prensa in Jan 2014 that more than 50 people a year need a stem cell transplant in Panama’s social security system alone, and that only 3 in 10 patients have a matching relative. [11]